Concept Of Freedom In Nepali Women

The process of direct curtailing of personal freedom of Nepali women initiates from their own family. A family is the only place where an individual can express his or her inner feelings. But, in the majority of Nepali family, after a girl is born, she is taught about the cultural and traditional beliefs to be right even though it will be not in her favor. The family who is responsible for being her first teacher of her life teaches her not to be rebellious, and she is taught to follow whatever decision the family decides for her. The stereotypical cultural beliefs and traditions are never equally distributed among men and women. While explaining the entitlement theory, Nozick states, “A utilitarian who judges between any two distribution by …show more content…
For instance, few women have a different perception of personal freedom after having a blind faith in the stereotypical cultural and traditional beliefs, which are widely accepted by the society. Sierra Tamang in The Politics of ‘Developing Nepali Women’, writes, “Apart from an obligatory reference emphasizing the difference between sex (a biological notion) difference between gender (a social constrict) and sometimes, a preamble concerning the historical march their father and husbands, they can be seen as being as culpable for the oppression of dalit women- a topic that has not even been touched in unreflexive accounts of ‘the Nepali woman’s’ ‘oppression’ by ‘women leaders’ (282). There are few women, who believe that the life they are living has enough personal freedom, and they will help to propagate the cultural beliefs which are not supporting to women. There are frequent cases when a woman becomes active participant to be dominant to another woman. “She worked day and night for her sister, and besides doing the cooking and the washing, she did sewing and worked as a charwoman and gave her sister all she earned. She did not accept an order or job of any kind without her sister’s permission” ( Dostoyevsky 52). A woman is being dominant to another woman in the name of blood share factor is clearly reflected from this novel. In the same way, a woman gets dominated by her own kind within her society in the name of culture. Additionally, the victimized women of Nepali society choose to remain silent in fear of being more victimized. Hema Pandey in her scholarly article Domestic Violence as a Form of Crime against Women, writes, “The crime of Domestic Violence in Nepal is prevailing in various forms. Despite of constitutional and legal guarantee of right of women to be free from violence and get legal remedy in case of the violation of very right,